Keith Jarrett Trio concert Live in Japan, July 25, 1993 at Open Theater East (Tokyo)

Keith Jarrett Trio concert Live in Japan, July 25, 1993 at Open Theater East (Tokyo)
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KEITH JARRET

GARY PEACOCK

JACK DEJOHNETTE
LIVE IN JAPAN, 1993

Open Theater East, TOKYO

1
Introduction
(Public Domain)
01:57
2
In Your Own Sweet Way
(Dave Brubeck)
12:30
3
Butch And Butch
(Oliver Nelson)
07:34
4
Basin Street Blues
(Spencer Williams)
07:03
5
Solar – Extension
(Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis)
26:06
6
If I Were A Bell
(Frank Loesser)
14:48
7
I Fall In Love Too Easily
(Jule Styne)
10:10
8
Oleo
(Sonny Rollins)
08:55
9
Bye Bye Blackbird
(Ray Henderson)
09:32
10
The Cure
(Keith Jarrett)
07:58
11
I Thought About You
(Jimmy Van Heusen)

Keith Jarrett piano
Gary Peacock double-bass
Jack DeJohnette drums

Recorded live in Tokyo, July 25, 1993 at Open Theater East
Director: Kaname Kawachi
Recorded by Toshio Yamanaka
Produced by Yasuhiko Sato
Executive producers: Hisao Ebine and Toshinari Koinuma

It’s one thing to hear, but quite another to see, the Keith Jarrett Trio in action. For those unable to do so in a live setting, this two-DVD release is the next best thing. Like the Standards I/II set that precedes it, this one was recorded in Tokyo, but puts about a decade between those first Japan performances.

A 1993 gig at Open Theater East takes place in the heart of a sweltering summer. The air shines both with the music and with the rain that forces a large and dedicated audience to listen from beneath ponchos, and the musicians to play from beneath a clear canopy. The video quality is much finer this time around, and despite a rocky start born of technical issues and the weather, captures one of the trio’s finest sets available on any medium.

What separates this concert from the others available on DVD is the openness of the band’s aura. Jarrett more than ever plays for his appreciative listeners because he understands the bond into which nature has pushed them. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Jarrett’s The Köln Concert also famously began in the least ideal of conditions. Clearly, the pressure set him on an unprecedented creative path. And so, even as the trio struggles to feel out the climate in Dave Brubeck’s “In Your Own Sweet Way” (throughout which Jarrett must often wipe down the keyboard with a towel), all while latecomers snake to their seats, we can feel the groove emerging one muscle at a time. After the worldly touches of “Butch And Butch” and “Basin Street Blues,” we know that things have been set right.

Whereas in the previous Japan documents Peacock proved himself the man of the hour (although, to be sure, the breadth of his architectures in “If I Were A Bell” and “I Fall In Love Too Easily” are as masterful as they come), it’s DeJohnette who produces the deepest hues of this rainbow. His sticks make evergreens like Sonny Rollins’s “Oleo” that much greener, and turn a 26-minute rendition of Miles Davis’s “Solar,” combined with Jarrett’s “Extension,” into a downright sacred space.

As with the 1986 concert on Standards I/II, the trio ends on three encores: “Bye Bye Blackbird,” Jarrett’s “The Cure,” and “I Thought About You.” In all of this one can sense a quiet storm of commitment to the music that flows from within. Melodies breathe, reborn, requiring open hearts to know their graces.

Keith Jarret

Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer.

Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.

In 2003 Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first recipient of both the contemporary and classical musician prizes, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. His album The Köln Concert (1975) became the best-selling piano recording in history.

In 2008 he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine’s 73rd Annual Readers’ Poll.

Jarrett has been unable to perform since suffering a stroke in February 2018, and a second stroke in May 2018, which left him partially paralyzed and unable to play with his left hand.

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Tracklist

1 In Your Own Sweet Way 12:30 2 Butch And Butch 7:34 3 Basin Street Blues 7:03 4 Solar – Extension 26:06 5 If I Were A Bell 14:48 6 I Fall In Love Too Easily 10:10 7 Oleo 8:55 8 Bye Bye Blackbird 9:32 9 The Cure 7:58 10 I Thought About You 5:49